On Rapture and Death

Stella Vinitchi Radulescu is a Romanian-American poet, she holds a Ph.D. in French and was a professor of French at Loyola University and Northwestern University. Radulescu is the author of many collections of poetry published in the United States, Romania, and France. She writes poetry in English, French, and Romanian, though she does not translate any of her work between languages. Her poems have appeared in a variety of literary magazines in the United States, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Romania. Her last two collections of poetry I Scrape the Window of Nothingness (2018) and Traveling With the Ghosts (2021, reviewed in Publishers Weekly) were published by Orison Books. Radulescu’s French books received several awards, including the Grand Prix de la Francophonie and the Prix Amélie Murat.